Aviation News

As the desert heat is cooling off for the winter, the U.S. Aircraft Expo is concluding its 2018 season this weekend at the Scottsdale Airport (KSDL) in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Expo will be held from 10 am to 4 pm on Friday November 9 and Saturday November 10 at the Ross Aviation FBO, located adjacent […]

Terrafugia has chosen BRS’ whole-aircraft parachute safety system for its upcoming Transition flying car, BRS announced in a press release. It is designed to be a last resort for pilots and passengers in the event all other methods of recovering an aircraft in distress have failed. The system uses a pilot-activated ballistic rocket launcher to […]

A new writing prize, named after famed aviation journalist Richard Collins, created especially for young journalists, was just announced by Sporty’s. The winning writer could take home the Richard Collins Writing Prize for Young Pilots prize of $2,500. Richard Collins’ (above) career as an aviation journalist spanned 60 years, including more than 10 years as […]

For tens of thousands of aircraft owners, the deadline has been looming. ADS-B will be required on January 1, 2020, in airspace that now requires a transponder. It was clear to John and me that we wanted to meet the requirement before the deadline — because without ADS-B our old jet would become useless. And […]

Boeing Company today published an update to the flight crew operations manual for its 737 Max 8, warning of a possible fault in the aircraft’s angle of attack system that could cause the aircraft to violently pitch nose down, according to the FAA. The AOA measures the angular difference between the direction the aircraft is […]

Although it’s old news, the accident involving a joyride by a ground service employee flying one of Horizon Air’s Bombardier Q400s from Sea-Tac Airport on August 10 still resonates. The flight terminated in a fireball on Ketron Island, approximately 30 miles southwest of Seattle. After almost four decades as an airline pilot, I’m left shaking […]

Hartzell Propeller announced it has entered into a partnership with Eviation to produce customized propellers to drive the company’s electric commuter, an 11-seat airplane called Alice, currently in the development phase. The airplane will be powered solely by electricity stored in high-energy density batteries with motors spinning three five-blade carbon fiber pusher propellers approximately 65 […]

American Airlines’ subsidiary Envoy continues to grow. As the regional airline’s success continues, it is nearly doubling its Embraer E175 fleet by adding 15 airplanes to an existing order of 25 E175s. The new airplanes will start arriving this month and, by mid-2020, the E175 fleet will reach 84. This is a significant increase to […]

Delaware State University will soon begin replacing its aging fleet of Piper PA-28 trainers with 10 new Vulcanair single engine V1.0s, according to a statement from the university. The school inked the deal with Ameravia, Inc., Vulcanair’s U.S. distributor and said deliveries are expected to begin before the end of this year and continue into […]

Italian helicopter builder Leonardo continues to work toward FAA certification of the world’s first civilian tiltrotor, the AW609. Part of the aircraft’s certification is proving to regulators that the AW609 can successfully autorotate to a landing following a dual engine failure. The company wants the FAA to consider some flight simulator data gathered to verify […]